The AfterQuery Research Scholar program is a semester-long collaboration for students pursuing ambitious, publishable work in one of AfterQuery's focus areas:
- Data quality and data mix
- Post-training research, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
- Agent and foundation-model evaluation
- Public benchmarks in coding and specialized domains such as medicine, finance, law, and STEM
Projects are shaped around each scholar's interests, with the goal of producing a joint publication. Scholars receive weekly mentorship and hands-on support with engineering, datasets, human annotation, and compute resources. A cash award is provided if a jointly authored paper from the collaboration is accepted for publication.
Responsibilities- Define and execute a focused project with an AfterQuery research mentor, aligned with your interests and at least one core research area.
- Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments, and analyze the results.
- Develop the datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets the project needs.
- Document methods and results clearly and work with AfterQuery's research and engineering teams to make the work reproducible.
- Co-author a paper and work toward publication.
Required Qualifications- Full-time undergraduate/master/PhD student with an established publication record
- Ability to participate in an ongoing research collaboration throughout the academic semester.
Preferred Qualifications- Research publications at leading conferences or peer-reviewed journals.
- Experience developing, publishing, or contributing to public benchmarks.
Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):- Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Commute Covered
